"Shatterday" is the first segment of the premiere episode of the first season of the television series The Twilight Zone.
[1] The segment is nearly a one-man show for featured actor Bruce Willis; all the other significant characters appear only offscreen.
If they do it hard enough, and long enough, something might just push back... from the Twilight Zone.Peter Jay Novins is at a bar and accidentally dials his own home phone number.
He hopes this will force Peter B to eventually leave the apartment and allow him to move back in, reclaiming his life.
As days go by, Peter A becomes increasingly sick, while Peter B makes major changes to his life: He patches things up with his estranged mother and invites her to live with him, turns down an unethical advertising job that he had previously accepted, tries to make amends with an ex-girlfriend who left her husband to pursue their affair only for Peter to dump her when he tired of their relationship, and plans to marry his current girlfriend and have children.
The short story uses all seven days of one week: Someday, Moansday, Duesday, Woundsday, Thornsday, Freeday, Shatterday.
Brennert had extensively revised the opening scene from the short story, in which Peter Novins almost immediately accepts that the man on the other end of the line is himself, because this would not be believable in television format.